Hair-treating device



May 14, 1929; J. c. BROWN HAIR TREATING DEVICE Filed 001:. 20, 1927 IN VEN TOR.

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Patented May 14, 1929.

UNITED STATES JAMES 0. BROWN, OF NEW YORK,

N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ERNE S'I YORK, N. Y.

O. FREDERICS, OF NEW HAIR-TREATING DEVICE.

Application filed October 20, 1927. Serial No. 227,404.

This invention relates to a pad of improved construction for use in connection with permanenthaii waving and a method ofusing the same.

5 It is an object of the invention to provide a device and a method which will afford protection against injury to the person whose hair is being treated and which will expedite and improve the results of such treatment.

A more specific object of the invention is to provide a pad of the type described which is particularly adapted for use in connection with permanent Waving heaters of the short type which are used principally for the purpose of waving newly-grown hair near the scalp of the patient.

Other objects of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part appear hereinafter. The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the applica: tion of which will be indicated in the claims.

For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention reference should be had to the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which: 7

Figure 1 is a front view of a pad exemplifying the improved construction of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear View of the pad shown in Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional View of the device taken along the line 8-3 of Fig. 1 looking downwardly; and

Fig. 4: is an elevational view, partly broken away, of the device shown in applied position.

Asaforestated, a pad of this nature is adapted for use in the treatment of hair and is particularly intended to be employed in'connection with the permanent waving of the newlygrownportions of hair which have previously as been waved. In such treatment, as shown for example in Fig.4, a tress of hair 10 is coiled in any suitable manner as at 11 around a spindle or mandrel 12. If desired, the hair isthereupon wrapped loosely with a cord as at 50 13, and a pad, designated generally as 14, is wound around the coiled tress in the form of a tube. Prior to such application to the hair, the pad 142, or portions thereof, may be dampened with water or with any desired solution, .55 and thereafter a tubular heater 15 is placed thereover, as is indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4.

Although the general construction of the pad 14 may be varied, Without departing from the spirit of this invention, it is preferred that the pad should be constructed along lines similar to that disclosed in the copending application of Ernest O. Frcderics, Serial No. 97,363, filed March 25, 1926. As is shown in the drawing herein, this construction includes a stitched pad 16 of gauze or like material containing powdered borax which is attached to a layer of gas-impervious material, such as paper 17, whiehin turn is backed by a heatresistant and heat-transmitting material 18, such as metal foil, having a high-melting point.

As is pointed out in said copending application, when a tress of hair surrounded by a moist pad issubjected to the heating by a tubular heater of a permanent waving machine, steam and other gases are effect the waving of the hair within the heater, and in order to prevent such gases from scalding the scalp of the person being treated, the lower end of the pad when in position is closed,-as by means of a clip 19.

Since, when operating in accordance with the present invention, it is desired only to treat the newly-grown portions of the hair, that is, those portions near the scalp, without advei'sely affecting the wave which is already present in the older portions of the hair, the structure of the pad 14 is modified in that the pad 16 and foil member 18 have been shortened to a. length approximatingthe length of the short heater unit, as, for example, to 1% inches, and the gas-impervious material 17 has been perforated to allow escape. of the gases, vapors, steam or heat (hereinafter referred to generically as gases) from the tube formed by the pad and the foil at a point adjacent the upper end of the heater.

Such perforations may, of course, be of any size, number or position, as long as they are sufficiently large to allow'the escape of the gases, while at the same time they serve to retain sufficient of these gases Within the lower end of the tube which is inside the heating element, to effect the desired waving treatment. It is to be understood, of course, that although the gas-impervious material 17 has been shown to be without departing from the spirit of the vention, other pervious material which would generated which perforated, nevertheless, 111- allow gas to escape at this portion of the tube might be used.

The device comprising the invention is particularly adapted for use in connection with the short-length heater unit described in my copending application, Serial No. 228,862,

,, filed October 18, 1927.

, Since certain changes may be made in the above article, and different embodiments of the intention could be made, without departing from the scope. thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein describ l, and all statements of the scope of the irlv tntion which as a matter of language might c said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. As an article of manufacture, a hairtreating pad adapted for the wavingof a short portion of a tress of hair, which comprises a short pad-portion, a gas-impervious material superposed thereon, and a gas-pervious material extending laterally therefrom and adapted to surround the remainder of the tress of hair.

2. As an article of manufacture, a hairtreating pad adapted for the waving of a short portion of a tress of hair, which comprises a short pad-portion, and a gas-impervious material superposed thereon, said gasimpervious material extending laterally from the pad and being perforated to allow the escape'of gases evolved during heat treatment when the pad surrounds atress of hair.

3. As an article of manufacture, a hair-' treating pad adapted for the waving of a short portion of a tress of hair, which comprises a short pad-portion, a gas-impervious material superposed thereon, a gas-pervious material extending laterally therefrom and adapted to surround the remainder of the tress of hair, and afire-resistant, heat-transmitting material'superposed on said gas-impervious material coinciding with and of substantially the same length as the pad-portion; said gas-impervious material extending laterally from the pad and being perforated to allow the escape of gases evolved during heat treatment when the pad surrounds a tress of hair.

4. A method of rewaving hair, which comprises coiling a tress of hair on a mandrel, surrounding the newly-grown portions of the hair with a-pad containing a hair-treating solution superposed upon which is a gas-impervious material, the remainder of said tress of hair being surrounded by a gas-pervious material, and, applying heat to that portion of the tress which is surrounded by the pad.

5. A method of rewaving hair, which comprises coiling a tress of hair on a mandrel, surrounding the newly-grown portions of the hair with a pad containing a hair-treating solution superposed upon which is a gas-impervious material and a fire-resistant, heattransmitting material, the remainder of said tress of hair being surrounded by a gas-pervious material; and applying heat to that portion of the tress which is surrounded by the pad.

6. A method of rewaving hair, which comprises coiling a tress of hair on a mandrel, surrounding the newly-grown portions of the hair with a pad containing a hair-treating solution superposed upon which is a gas-impervious material, the remainder of said tress of hair being enclosed in a perforated lateral extension of said gas-impervious material, and applying heat to that portion of the tress which is surrounded by the pad.

7 A method of rewaving hair, which comprises coiling a tress of hair on a mandrel,-

surrounding the newly-grown portions of the a hair with a pad containing a hair-treating solution superposed upon which is a gas-impervious material and a fire-resistant, heattransmitting material, the remainder of said tress of hair being enclosed in a perforated lateral extension of said gas-impervious material; and applying heat to that portion of the tress which is surrounded by the pad.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JAMES 0. BROWN. 

